Painter, illustrator, writer, art director, publisher and teacher, who did the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition design and was important for Jasia Reichardt beyond this fact.
Franciszka Themerson
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| last name: | Themerson |
| first name: | Franciszka |
| birthday: | June 28, 1907 |
| birth-place: | Warsaw (Poland) |
| death date: | June 29, 1988 |
Summary
Biography
| 1907 | born in Warsaw as daughter of Jacób Weinles, a renowned academic painter |
| from 1924 | student at Academy of Art, Warsaw |
| 1929 | begin of creative collaboration with Stefan Themerson, then student of architecture and physics, author of children’s books and experimental photographer |
| 1930 | her first movie »Pharmacy«, produced together with Stefan. In the following years she published six more films and up to twenty children’s books with him. |
| 1931 | graduation with first prize in painting, she married Stefan the same year |
| middle 30ies | foundation of the Cooperative of Film Authors, together with other Polish avant garde filmers art director of »film artystyczny«, the publication of the cooperative |
| 1937-1939 | move to Paris |
| 1940 | migration to London work as cartographer for the Polish exile government Unposted Letters series of drawings |
| 1943 | Calling Mr. Smith — a movie for the Polish Ministry of Information and Documentation in London, together with Stefan Themerson |
| 1944-1945 | The Eye and the Ear — her last movie |
| 1946 | move to Maida Vale district in London her nice Jasia Reichardt arrives from Poland |
| 1948 | foundation of Gaberbocchus Press Ltd. |
| 1957-1959 | the basement of the press offices in Formosa street was turned into Gaberbocchus Common Room, a meeting place for those interested in art and science. |
| 1963-1964 | Ubu Roi set and costume design, Marionetteatern, Stockholm |
| 1966 | The Threepenny Opera set and costume design, Marionetteatern, Stockholm |
| 1968 | Cybernetic Serendipity graphic and exhibition design |
| 1970-1971 | Ubu Enchainé and Thesmophoria Zusai set design, Dukke Theatre, Copenhagen |
| 1957 | Gallery One, London |
| 1959 | Gallery One, London |
| 1963 | Drian Galleries, London |
| 1964 | Zacheta, Warsaw |
| 1966 | New Gallery, Belfast |
| 1968 | Demarco, Edinburgh |
| 1975 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1977-78 | Gruenebaum, New York |
| 1981-82 | in Lódz, Warsaw and Wroclaw |
| 1991 | Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg |
| 1992 | Gardner Arts Centre, Sussex |
| 1993 | »The World According to the Themersons« festival, Gdansk; Redfern Gallery, London; National Theatre, London; Festival Hall, London |
| 1994 | Imperial War Museum, London |
Illustrations
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